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I came across this article about the retail music business and I think it
fits in with some of the recent discussion here.

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/a...ls.php?id=9735

From the article:

There is a story doing the rounds in the US that says a lot about the state
of the music business. It concerns a young rock band who decided to stop
selling their CDs at concerts. Selling CDs has, for many years, been a good
way for an act to reclaim the margin that would otherwise have been
snaffled by a retailer. But it made no sense to this band once they
discovered that by selling CDs for $10 they were cannibalising sales of
their $20 T-shirts...